It's funny - I thought the pricing changes had to do with following Twitter's lead, but I had no idea he would be that down with Musk. If I were an employee at Reddit now, I'd take this as a serious red flag and start looking.
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I'm not sure what you mean here. the_donald was shut down in June 2020 according to wikipedia. And the insurrection happened 6 months later, Jan 2021.
FYI if you're using jerboa, there isn't an option to mark posts as NSFW. I didn't even know that was an option lol. I'm also surprised that you can't automatically mark new posts in a community as NSFW.
I think there's a lot of potential for grouping up and displaying posts in different ways.
That does look pretty polished... It's kind of overwhelming having so many options that pretty much do the same thing.
Sometimes you look like a hacker man, other times you spend an hour getting audio to work over HDMI
I think there'll be a lot more, since so far people have only left for ideological reasons. Once they actually lose access to reddit via third party apps, it'll be a lot easier to justify moving on.
And there are probably people still hoping that reddit will reverse their decision or somehow fix things before the changes take effect.
Can't say I'm surprised.
It probably wouldn't be too hard to write a script that does that by scraping reddit for links. That way it'd work even after the API changes take effect.
I think that the nature of modern social media platforms make this kind of moral panic It has some properties that make this kind of constant moral panic seem inevitable.
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Huge centralized platforms: they push groups of people together that have core ideological differences. Don't get me wrong, it's healthy and beneficial for all to be exposed to beliefs, have their current set of beliefs challenged, so everyone can grow and learn from each other. But a constant barrage of critiques, callouts, challenges, etc hurts more than it helps. There need to be safe harbors so folks can just chill.
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Engagement at all costs: Social media companies participate in the attention economy, where they make money proportional to the time people spend on the platform. Companies have to fight for your attention in order to survive. And the best way to do that happens to be through fear and anger. Bird app is incentivized to push callouts to the top of the feed.
I'm hopeful that federated communities won't have as much moral puritanism as the big platforms of today.
That makes sense, thanks. Btw you might want to remove that link, it just points to a site that tries to download a file.